The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-09-24
1t Hurts Them.

Willingly uhu SoASOhidilyJ lOi
dirty wages. The occasion of its
latest effort is as follows:
The Democratic Campaign Com
mittee has taken pains to put be-
fore the farmers of Ohio a com.
plete and ungarbled reprint OF
Gov. Foraker's Special Message to
the Legislature, dated April g.
1886, in which he urges that there
be "an immediate revelation OF
real estate" on the ground that the
present "valuation of real estate
rarely exceeds rs per cent, and
ranges downward from that point
as low as 25 per cent. of its true
value"
The dissemination of this docu-
ment among those whom it direct
ly concerns, whose character and
whose interests 1t attacks, has
caused great CONSERVATION among
the managers of that peculiar kind
of Republicanism which Governor
Foraker and his campaign COM
mittee represent.
When men like the present State
Railroad Commissioner, the State
Librarian, the Governors Secret
ary and the Clerk of the Supreme
Court think it compatible with
honor and common honesty to
draw salaries from the public
treasury while they are neglecting
the public service and devoting
their time and energy to conduct
ing Governor Foraker's personal
campaign, there is no lower depth
to which they can descend. Lying
fraud, forgery, any crime imagined
to be necessary to the attainment
of the desired end, may be COM
mitted with just as little compunc-
tion of conscience. Indeed, to
speak of conscience in such con-
nection is almost an abuse of lam
guage. When, therefore, the State
Journal (Which was never known
to support anything, least of all the
Republican ticket, until paid for
it@, comes forward and prints the
idiotic charge that the Democratic
Campaign Committee has issued
"mangled" editions of the Foraker
message, changing words and fig
ures, omitting and inserting pass
ages, to its party purposes, (and
when the Columbus correspond
ents of the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette and the Cleveland Leader
repeat the charge in precisely the
same language0 we may know
that the thing was trumped up in
the added brains of Foraker, Cap
peller, and Company, and paid for
with good money at so much
line.
The Foraker gang of Republicans
feel that they have been badly hurt
in a tender spot, and no amount of
grimacing and lying on their part
will serve to cover up that patent
fact.
The Democratic Committee has
sent out, and will continue to send
out, the damning document in all
it's original hideousness exactly as
it is printed in the official record,
the Journal of the Ohio Senate for
the session of 1886, on pages $50 to
1863, without the omission, change,
or insertion of a single word, figure,
or punctuation mark. (The Senate
Journal can be found in the Office
of The DEMOCRAT and any citizen
may compare the message as sent
out by the Democratic Committee
with the Originally
If the exact and naked truth
hurts Governor Foraker, and his
admirers SO badly he has nobody to
blame for it but himself. And 1t
will not help him to have his
henohmen lie about 1t.
Nor will it answer their purpose
70 threaten criminal prosecution
for it's dissemination. Neither the
Democratic Committee nor this
paper fears the bOmbastio threats
of either the State Journal, or the
State officials who can neglect all
their official duties, except draw
ing their salaries, for the purpose
Of conducting the Republican
Campaign